Conversations on a Bench – Series 1

Anna Scott-Brown hears stories from the people who stop to sit beside her on benches around the country.

*** Overtone has been commissioned to produce three more programmes … so watch this space … ***

Conversations on a Bench – Mumbles

16th & 22nd October 2016

In this edition, she is joined in Mumbles, on a bench overlooking Swansea Bay, by locals, holidaymakers and the family of the person to whom the bench is dedicated.

Throughout the programme, a specially commissioned work by poet Owen Sheers draws on the voices and stories of those who sit and contemplate the inscription, “Born to be Wild – Dinks Nash -Loved Forever.”

Presenter: Anna Scott-Brown
Producer: Adam Fowler
An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4.

Conversations on a Bench – Oxford

Anna Scott-Brown hears stories of love, loss and hope from the strangers and friends she sits beside on ‘Rosie’s Bench’ in a park in Oxford. The inscription, Rest Awhile and Remember Happy Times Together, draws out reflections and revelations which Michael Symmons Roberts weaves into a poem, specially commissioned for the programme.

Presenter: Anna Scott-Brown
Producer: Adam Fowler
An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4.